What kind of information did you learn to help complete your project?~ We watched more videos to get more ideas and objects we can use like Dixie Cups. We watched about 5 videos on ideas and machines so we could get more, good ideas. We got a couple ideas from watching them.

What did you do? (Specifically)~ We decided what our final, end task would be. We decided it would be getting toothpaste to squirt onto a toothbrush.

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What questions did you answer about how to complete your project? We decided our end task and what our stage will look like. We thought about how we could get the toothpaste to come out and go onto the toothbrush, and we came up with something sort of heavy dropping onto the tube.

Now that you've been investigating your project for awhile, what new information and questions do you need to research and answer?~ We need to research and re-watch some videos we got some of our ideas from. We will do this, and be able to memorize how to set up the stages.

Explaining the "nuts and bolts", the technical specific parts of your project. ~We use a zipline with a pulley (pulley - a wheel on an axle or shaft that is designed to support movement/change of direction of a cable or belt along its circumference)

The process you need to complete to finish your project. ~We need to get more ideas for the next stages of our machine and get materials and items to set them up.

Further explain the technical parts of your project. What you need to do to complete your project, and where you are at. ~ We need to think about more, better stages than just rolling, I have ideas, but the other members of my group haven't been here so I couldn't discuss them with them. When they get back, I will put my ideas out there and maybe we will use them.

**Make sure you mention any problems you are having. List steps to solve these problems and steps to make sure it doesn't happen again or modification to minimize problems.**~ My group members haven't been here so I haven't been able to discuss my new ideas with them, and we are sort of behind because of it. When they get here, we will need to work hard, and for the full time to catch up and get our stages for our machine put together.

We are starting to put our next stages together. We have one stage done, and we've been talking about how we're setting our stages up. We've also been talking about what order our stages are going to be in.

We are working on putting our stages together. We have one stage for sure done, but we have to test other stages. We have ideas for our other stages, we just need to test them out and maybe make a couple of stages a little different.

Today we continued on setting our machine up and figuring out where and how to set it up. We are getting further along with it, we just have a couple more stages to complete/set up and we have to test it out.

Discuss where you'd like to go from here.~ We would like to have our machine work successfully and multiple times. To be able to do this, we have to set up our full machine and continuously practice it working, so we will have a better chance of it working multiple times in a row.

What do you want to do to proceed and what modification/changes to your model/machine to continue on. Include why you are making these modifications. We need to practice how our machine works so we can get it to work multiple times in a row. We might need to change one of our stages because it doesn't work like 1/3 of the time, so we could maybe change some materials we use for it.

Where do you go from here? ~ We have to continue setting up our stages and testing them. We know how our stages are going to go, but if they don't work when we set them up, we're going to have problems. We are really hoping our machine works, because we think we have pretty good ideas.

You should talk about how you are working on your project and progress you are making. ~ We made progress by figuring out how to set up our whole machine. We were able to try out some of our stages, which helped us with our progress on our machine.

Talk about how you are taking the errors out of your design. Our first stage, which is with a slinky, was hard to get to work right. Sometimes the slinky goes in the right spots and activates our next stage, other times, not so much.

Now that you are "done", what did you learn about your subject? ~ I learned that Rube Goldberg machines don't always turn out the way you want or expect. We had to change our stages that we planned for our machine many times. At sometimes, it would get pretty frustrating when a stage wouldn't work how we wanted it to. Overall, our ideas were pretty good, we just had difficulties getting them to work.

How did your project turn out/if it didn't work why didn't it?~ Our project had good ideas, but some stages were difficult to get to work the way we wanted them to. For example, our first stage (which had a slinky) had to work and land in certain spots, anywhere else then the stage wouldn't work right. We didn't get the chance to fully test out our machine multiple times, only stage by stage. If we had the chance to, we think our machine would work.

Did your project make you want to pursue this subject more, like a hobby or a job? Why or why not?~ I don't think I would like doing this as a hobby or a job. I think I would get too frustrated to do this often and I would probably stop and give up.

Do you wish you had chosen a different project? Why or why not?~ I wish I chose to do the google cardboard virtual reality because I think it would have been more interesting and entertaining.